Does this mean what I think it means? Awhile ago I had a dream I found a new artifact armor that had slaying to-dam numbers similar to a Dwarven shield. Now I just found a blue Dragonmail of Craftmanship (+0,+0). Obviously not very exciting, except why does the armor have (+0,+0)? I've never seen armor with slaying on it. Does this mean it is possible to find a DSM of Craftmanship with some plus slaying numbers? That would be cool.

In other news, finally found my first wand of TO on DL63 and thanks to gloves of power <+4> (+5, +5) and Lorien Bow <+4> I am getting max blows with my melee weapons (525 vs non rAcid with Dúrin and 670 vs Dragons and Demons with Sythe of Slicing. Now I just need !CON and a few more resistances and I'm good to go.

YASD: having fun is better than surviving? I guess.... A Nightwalker summoned a hand druj and I was in a cavern so getting out of LOS was a bit difficult and I didn't want to use a !Healing.

Once again I am a fragile cannon. I probably should be wearing my =CON <+5> instead of my =DAM (0,+11) but dealing high damage is so fun. I am taking down a pit of Night***s right now with ease even though I only have 461 health. Doing 570 to evil.

Yeah, I was max blows but my CON was abysmal. I sure do like the 4.3 blows/round starting out but adding to CON at the start would mean I would have to slow down a bit, which is probably not a bad thing.

I think my next go is going to be RandArts and starting stats 18/20 DEX 18/20 STR instead of 18/40--18/40 which is what I've been doing and the rest to CON. Thanks for the advice Pete.

You'd be slightly slower in the early game (not that having .8 fewer blows/round or whatever would slow a warrior down that much), but have a more consistent midgame since you'd need fewer CON potions to be able to take on the heavy-hitting targets.

You'd be slightly slower in the early game (not that having .8 fewer blows/round or whatever would slow a warrior down that much), but have a more consistent midgame since you'd need fewer CON potions to be able to take on the heavy-hitting targets.

Yes, I think it's going to be much better.

Well, that was a short run. So I stumbled on a slowing trap just as Farmer Maggot's dog comes into view and so I tried to ?phase away but didn't get away from him. So I tried to attack him and he brought to one health and a graze. Figured I'll ?phase, go to 0 health, and heal up. Well, I ?phased, died at 0 health, then stopped bleeding. So... the new nightlies have 0 health mean death now? It used to be you could survive with 0 health, which I kinda liked, since I've been at 0 health quite a few times.